Malamum Posted July 3, 2004 Posted July 3, 2004 As some of you already know Indy is not great with other dogs so off leash parks are generallyout of the question for him. However I have decided that they really do need to be able to run around off leash in an area that is bigger than our back yard so tonight Michael and I took them to the dog park - though we waited till it was fairly late and dark so that our two dogs would be the only ones there. I was right - no one else was crazy enought to be out late at night in the middle of winter at the dog park so we had the whole place to ourselves. :roll: What types of things does everyone else do for thier dogs that most "normal" people wouldn't do? Quote
Carolk9s Posted July 3, 2004 Posted July 3, 2004 I am SO with you. I like to get up at 6am and take the dogs out. Its cooler and there are usually no other dogs at the park. The girls can handle other dogs but Jesse is getting rather frail, though he does not think so, and I worry about him getting knocked over. Just a little bump from an exuberant dog can send him down. He also cannot take the heat or humidity, unfortunately, it is now fairly humid very early in the day so I may have to curtail his visits even more. Quote
Guest Anonymous Posted July 3, 2004 Posted July 3, 2004 [quote name='Malamum']I was right - no one else was crazy enought to be out late at night in the middle of winter at the dog park so we had the whole place to ourselves. :roll: :o :o When's your winter? Now I'm curious :lol: :lol: We're in the middle of summer! Although it's not acting like it :evil: Been raining and storming for a week!! :( Well, when it actually IS hot out, I always put the fan to the dog's liking :lol: Quote
mouseatthebusstop Posted July 3, 2004 Posted July 3, 2004 take them on holiday with us go in a pub and ask the landlady if she minds us having a meal and a drink in our car ---it's pouring with rain all true and it happened last weekend Quote
courtnek Posted July 3, 2004 Posted July 3, 2004 well, in the summer when it's really hot I will wait until the sun has gone down to walk them, because Free is black and gets overheated so easily. and of course the pool and the sprinkler come out during the day so they can stay cool. I will leave the air conditioner on during the day even tho I'm not here for them. they get filtered water, same as we do.... Quote
imported_Kat Posted July 3, 2004 Posted July 3, 2004 Usually going out late at night would be the most craziest. When I had the horses I used to take Meg out for a ride with me at all hours into very early morning. It was pitch black always but we know the terrain and Meg had a wee flashy light on her collar as well as my horse having a flashy light on his girth so we could both see each other. Theres something magical about going out for a ride in the freezing cold dead of the morning at 4am :lol: Quote
mouseatthebusstop Posted July 3, 2004 Posted July 3, 2004 Did the lady at the pub actually bring the meals and pints out to the car? LOL. my husband carried the drinks out, the lady carried the meals out Quote
courtnek Posted July 3, 2004 Posted July 3, 2004 [quote name='HazelNutMeg'][quote name='Malamum']I was right - no one else was crazy enought to be out late at night in the middle of winter at the dog park so we had the whole place to ourselves. :roll: :o :o When's your winter? Now I'm curious :lol: :lol: We're in the middle of summer! Although it's not acting like it :evil: Been raining and storming for a week!! :( Well, when it actually IS hot out, I always put the fan to the dog's liking :lol: Australia's almost completely opposite of us. Our summer is their winter, and vice versa... I believe its because we're in the Northern Hemisphere, and they're in the Southern.... Quote
Malamum Posted July 3, 2004 Author Posted July 3, 2004 Mouse that is so funny about having the meal in your car. Shara - Courtnek is right - we are opposite to you guys. Though our winter is nothing like yours but for me it's still bloody cold. Quote
Guest Anonymous Posted July 4, 2004 Posted July 4, 2004 Kat - Sounds great! I miss our horses :( I sometimes (not now, because i'm STILL getting over my vertigo) I go down to the elm school (just down the road) if I can't sleep at night and bring my board and skate. Of course I have to bring the dog too or he cries :lol: Malamum - Yeah, you prolly wouldn't survive here :lol: :lol: We have winter for about 7-8 months, and most of it we are FROZEN OVER. I HATE snow :-? It sure is perdy, but bah, I hate the coldness. Same as I prolly couldn't survive down there though! We finally got sun a while ago (now it's been raining for about a week striaght) and I got heat stroke! I get heat stroke EVERY year, usually more than once, but depending on how much sun we actually have :wink: Mouse - That's halarious! :lol: Special poochers! Honestly, there isn't much special things like that I do for Coal :oops: I'm trying to think really hard and can only think of the fan thing! Coal is really dominant, so I have to do a lot of things to make sure I stay boss all the time :-? SOMETIMES, if he's really good, he's allowed on the bed... but thats' all I can think of really :( I feel kina like a bad dog mum now!! :( Ummm... I'm building agility equipment for him, and buy him special toys whenever I can!! But yeah... that's it, and that's kina normal things :puppydogeyes: Quote
Cairn6 Posted July 4, 2004 Posted July 4, 2004 Well I let one of my dogs Toto sit at the table when I eat. :oops: He doesn't eat off the table but he likes to sit there and watch me eat. In our old house we had no air conditioning and Toto would come into the room and stand in front of the fan I was using. I would let him stay there. Everytime I go swimming he goes too and he goes through the drive through and hands the lady the money and pays for our meal.(just kidding!!) Quote
courtnek Posted July 4, 2004 Posted July 4, 2004 Hey Malamum, is it true that your water drains counterclockwise, or is that an urban myth? Shara is right about the cold. It's worse for her than me, she's farther north, but winters here in Chi-town can be damnably cold as Divine can attest to as well. What's a normal winter temp for you guys? and is it really hot in the summer? just curious..... Quote
Malamum Posted July 5, 2004 Author Posted July 5, 2004 Urban myth - drains clockwise :D Our winter temps are probably pretty mild compared to yours. On average in the day it's been approx 15 C (59 F) though when I get up in the morning my thermometer tells me it's about 7C (44) outside and the other morning it was down to 4C (39F). Freezing for me but I'm sure mild for you guys. Yesterday we had an unseasonably warm winters day of approx 20C (68F) and I wore shorts and a T-shirt all day. Our summers are quite hot ranging anywhere from 25C (77F) to 40C (104F) - it also gets very humid - last summer ranged from 70-80% humidity. Our weather in Sydney I think is very similar to California. Quote
courtnek Posted July 5, 2004 Posted July 5, 2004 your summers are a lot like ours, hot and humid, but I'll TAKE your winters!! we went through 3 weeks last year where it was ranging between -15F and -25F....without wind chill, and I live in the area of the "Windy City".... although the name is funny. it IS very windy here, because of the Lake, but the city was named that way because of the "hot air" being blown off by the politicians during an intense election year. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Quote
imported_Cassie Posted July 5, 2004 Posted July 5, 2004 The things we do for our dogs...the list is endless 8) I always get my dogs out for 3 hikes a day, no if ands or buts about it. I walk them first thing in the morning around 5am, then I come home on my lunch (I get 2 hours lunches :wink: ) then I take them for their evening stroll. I walk them in the pouring rain, coldest winter day, when I feel like I am going to die from being sick, I still take them for their hikes. They thrive on their hikes and look so forward to it...plus, I have 2 intact males which pee about 50 times a day :roll: I carried my Rottie out of the woods one day when she had had an accident..she was walking along the trail and jumped up onto the deep crusty snow...I yelled for her to come back as I don't let my dogs walk onto of crusty snow...she turned around and started yelling (1st time she ever came this quick on a recall :-? ) one of her front legs went through the snow and her body kept going...I thought she had pulled her leg out of socket :o it was a long hike back to my car...but, I carried her the whole way and she weighs around 120lbs...it was not easy. Its funny though...when you are that concerned about your baby you seem to gain that extra needed strength. Quote
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